WALDO CARLSON Review - (INTERNAL MEDICINE)
Get our detailed analysis and review of CMS data for WALDO CARLSON.
Data is as of March 07, 2024.
The Most Important Data about WALDO CARLSON
In the briefest summary, WALDO CARLSON is a specialist in INTERNAL MEDICINE. Other specialties include PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, and UNDERSEA AND HYPERBARIC MEDICINE. WALDO CARLSON attended UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL, graduating in 1979. He maintains 2 office locations. He is a part of 1 medical group. He is affiliated with 1 medical organization (including hospitals, hospices, and skilled nursing facilities).
National Provider Number (NPI):
1356324214What is this page all about?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") compiles and distributes more than 17 tables of data on medical professionals on a sporadic basis. Some of the tables contain more than a million records which makes it very difficult to manage them. There is a lot of information to pour through when trying to understand WALDO CARLSON. Luckily, we are here to help! We’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the WALDO CARLSON does, their affiliations and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: Specialities, Ratings, Office Locations, Affiliations, and Other Doctors.
Specialties and Sub-Specialties:
WALDO CARLSON is a specialist in INTERNAL MEDICINE. Other specialties include PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, and UNDERSEA AND HYPERBARIC MEDICINE.
INTERNAL MEDICINE: General internists provide primary care to adult patients. Internists usually have more hospital-based training than family practitioners. They may have an office-based practice or work as a hospitalist primarily seeing patients in the hospital. These physicians attend medical school followed by an internal medicine residency. Internists may then choose to pursue a fellowship to sub-specialize in a variety of other areas, like endocrinology (hormone-related conditions) or cardiology (heart-relat... (more information)
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: Preventive medicine is exactly what it sounds like — it aims to prevent sickness before it happens. The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being. It also aims to avert disease, disability, and death on an individual basis, as well as on a large scale in communities and populations. Preventive medicine is promoted by all physicians, though some choose to specialize in it. Physicians in this specialty use biostatistics and epidem... (more information)
UNDERSEA AND HYPERBARIC MEDICINE: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine involves the prevention of injury and illness from exposure to environments with increased ambient pressure (such as in diving or hyperbaric chamber exposure), and the therapeutic use of high-environmental pressure and the delivery of oxygen under high pressure to treat disease. The scope of the subspecialty emphasizes the occupational, environmental, safety, and clinical aspects of diving, hyperbaric chamber operations, compressed air work, and hyperbaric oxygen... (more information)
Reviews and Ratings
MIPS Scores for WALDO CARLSON
MIPS is an acronym for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. Authorized by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reaouthorization Act of 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") developed MIPS to reward clinicians for the value of care they provide rather than the volume of care, quality over quantity. The MIPS final score determines a provider's Medicare Part B payment adjustments. MIPS also created a means for consumers to rank providers.
MIPS scores are calculated using four performance categories, quality, cost, improvement activities, and promotion of interoperability. Higher scores are better. The highest final MIPS score is 100.
No MIPS Scores are available for WALDO CARLSON.
Measures and Activities
These are important measures that CMS tracks for each doctor. Not all doctors or medical professionals have data.
There is no measure or activity data for WALDO CARLSON.
Office Locations and Phone Numbers for WALDO CARLSON
The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for WALDO CARLSON.
1721 S STEPHENSON AVE
IRON MOUNTAIN, MI 49801
906-774-1313
1707 S STEPHENSON AVE
IRON MOUNTAIN, MI 49801
906-776-5960
Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for WALDO CARLSON
Doctors Groups:
DICKINSON COUNTY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Medical Organizations:
Hospital: DICKINSON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
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